Mountain Lakes fall in sectional final

9:56 PM,
Feb. 14, 2013

Written by

Jim Hague
| For NJ Press Media

Dave Fewell, the first-year swim coach at Mountain Lakes, kept glancing up at the scoreboard at Passaic Tech's aquatic center Thursday afternoon and continued to stroke and twist the strands on his long multi-colored beard, much like the way a high school freshman girl pulls, tugs and twirls her hair at her first coed dance.

Fewell, a native Texan who got back into coaching swimming 29 years after his last coaching gig in Georgia in 1984, laughed when his act of nervous energy was spotted.